Charles North
Charles North's recent books include Everything and Other Poems (The Song Cave, 2020), which was named a N.Y. Times New and Noteworthy Book, and En Face (MAB Books, 2021), a collaboration with the artist Trevor Winkfield. News, Poetry & Poplars (poems + selected prose) is due this fall from Black Square Editions.
Charles North’s recent books include Everything and Other Poems (The Song Cave, 2020), which was named a N.Y. Times New and Noteworthy Book, and En Face (MAB Books,2021), a collaboration with the artist Trevor Winkfield. News, Poetry & Poplars (poems + selected prose) is due this fall from Black Square Editions.
Charles North’s twelfth poetry collection, Everything and Other Poems (The Song Cave, 2020), was named a NY Times New and Noteworthy Book. En Face, his collaboration with artist Trevor Winkfield, is just out from MAB Books.
Charles North’s most recent books are States of the Art: Selected Essays, Interviews and Other Prose (Pressed Wafer, 2017) and North of the Charles: Early and Uncollected Poems (Hanging Loose, 2018).
It may sound like a cop-out, but I’m of several minds about this topic, like a tree in which there are several blackbirds. I used to feel that the extravagant claims made for poetry by Stevens and Williams, to name only two, had an ironic undercurrent of desperation.
CHARLES NORTH's recent publications include Elevenses, a limited edition collaboration with the artist Trevor Winkfield (Granary Books, 2017), and States of the Art: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Other Prose 1975-2014 (Pressed Wafer, 2017). His eleventh book of poems, North of the Charles: Early and Uncollected Poems, is due from Hanging Loose this fall.
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